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of what they're gonna say.
They're not even listening.
That's what comedians do.
You know, you walk off stage
and you're at the bar
and you're not magic anymore.
And then it's almost like when I would
walk off, like, the spell is broken
and then I realize I'm a f***ing
zilch and then they realize it.
They like, "Oh, God,
we allowed him to control us?"
We got involved
in a dangerous situation,
you know, doing drugs and then
being... just constantly working
and not dealing with it.
And the one thing
um, a lot of people view comics
as, especially someone that,
you know, dies tragedy, like...
tragically, like Mitch did,
and, um, you know, drugs, it
comes with all these thoughts,
and a lot of people think
it's someone...
Something about Mitch is he didn't
really have that kind of negative side.
In a f***ed up way,
it was almost was his downfall.
Like, I would say, "Mitch,
we can't do this anymore."
Like, and he... like, Mitch wasn't stupid,
it wasn't fun anymore.
Doing... doing
an opiate isn't fun
- after it isn't fun anymore.
- Right.
Who's the pumpkin chick?
Cinderella?
Whichever one... whichever one
that turned into a pumpkin,
like, that's what it's like.
I'm a f***ing zilch again, ugh.
I would come off stage
in Hartford, Connecticut,
or whatever shithole
I had done, you know,
and I was just drinking my water and
I'm still the same frightened idiot.
And I'm like, "I have to
go back on to achieve that."
Definitely a certain point
in my life where I was...
I was... I was
at ease most on stage
in front of strangers
as opposed to, uh,
being with anyone I knew,
I would just...
Not that I was antisocial,
I don't know, but I was just...
I looked forward
to getting on stage.
I was like, "That's where...
that's where I really can be loose
and have fun and, you know,
I just love doing that."
I mean, now I have a talk show
where I just talk to strangers
and people I haven't met.
looks around and says,
"It's a wonderful world
full of wonderful things."
And a non-healthy person says,
"I want people to think
I'm one of the wonderful things.
"I want people to be glad
that I live on Earth.
I need to hear it."
Rather than just think,
"Oh, isn't it wonderful
to have people like
that who exist to entertain me?"
You go to a place of, I gotta...
How do I become that person?
That someone else will feel
that way about me, you know?
That's...
that's what I guess separates
healthy people
from non-healthy people.
There's a protective element,
I think, that we all kind of
share with one another,
because no one knows
but us what we go through.
The insecurity and the,
you know, the childishness,
the... the gaping hole
that can only be filled with the love of
strangers laughter every 15 to 30 seconds.
That is something that unless
you do it, you don't know.
even if they're a real
astute, empathetic manager,
and there are such people,
I do this every night.
Every night, 300...
I work, you know,
250, 300 nights a year,
and so don't tell me.
- It's failure.
- Yeah.
I think, it's failure
is what it is.
And... and the whole thing,
doing stand-up have been a fluke
and today's the day
that they all figure it out
and you walk out there and it's
the first time you've ever...
Well, I think
everyone can be funny,
but not when they want,
you know?
That's sort of the trick.
Sometimes when people
want to be funny
and they try,
it's a little painful.
- But...
- But the fact that they can try,
that's the thing that
to me that dilutes it,
because when you're at a party,
nobody dabbles in dentistry.
But everyone can, if they want,
choose to dabble in comedy.
They can be horrible.
Right.
But they can at least do it.
That's true.
That annoys the hell out of me.
That's true.
Well, I meant,
I think everyone's capable
of... of being funny
at some point or another,
you know?
I think... And I...
Definitely, I think every actor
I really do.
The first person from my real life
that made me laugh really hard?
Dan Rather, I guess,
is the first guy
who really made me
sort of have that...
that I-think-
I'm-gonna-throw-up laugh,
when he switched
from suits to sweaters.
When I did stand-up,
I always thought,
"I'm just some f***ing idiot.
Why would you sit and listen
to me talk for 20 minutes?"
I didn't have that confidence
that I could do some great
George Carlin monologue
And it took me another decade
to feel that in my movies
I could open up my heart
and tell people what
and that it was
worthy of being told.
And the moment I realized
that I can open up
and that it is okay to share
my way of looking at the world
with other people,
then my career took off.
I got to see Richard Jeni.
You know, I always loved Peter Sellers.
An early, early Peter Sellers.
You know,
or even Phyllis Diller.
Like, those kind of
threw me more than...
Stephen Wright.
Who gets on and is so quiet and withdrawn.
Dennis Miller's second special,
"Black and White."
Bill Cosby and whatnot.
And watching that master,
watching Johnny Carson
and seeing...
and then
Steve Martin.
I wanted to be...
The greatest stand-up with
the most weapons in history.
'Cause I thought then I could be the
right kind of Lenny Bruce funny.
And that's something that Adam Sandler,
I saw "Spinal Tap," went,
"Who are these guys?
How come they're, like, making fun of
us in a way that's really accurate?"
And I went in doing
Alan Partridge,
there's a bit in it where
something like...
"Who... do you think you are?"
there's a scene where Michael McKean...
when Christopher Guest comes in,
he says, "I've come to re-plug
your life support machine.
"I've come to...
We can re... do a tour of Japan."
Our single, "Sex Farm,"
was a big hit in Japan.
And he goes, "Oh, so you've come to
re-plug our life support systems?
"The...
f***ing nerve you display."
And... and I...
I use that sometimes.
When we first started
making "The Office,"
uh, I was walking down
the street with Ricky Gervais,
and Steve Coogan
and I was very excited and
kind of... but slightly daunted.
Like, "Ahh,"
and I have this weird thing
when I meet people I admire
that I don't want to seem
like a fawning idiot, you know?
Like, I want to seem, kind of...
I don't want
to give them, like...
about how great they are.
I feel like that
just will seem vulgar
or kind of ass-kissy
or something, you know?
And so I had this kind of,
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